May I direct your attention to an amazing 5 star review of her book, titled “This wonderful book has me reminiscing about my own gap year ...”

It’s almost as though she’s taken Binyavanga Wainaina’s How to Write about Africa as a manual rather than a criticism “Throughout the book, adopt a sotto voice, in conspiracy with the reader, and a sad I-expected-so-much tone. Establish early on that your liberalism is impeccable, and mention near the beginning how…

If it is any consolation, people in Scotland think she is a clueless idiot as well. Imagine the stupidest most over privileged sorority girl you ever met. She is our version. I even guessed correctly what boarding school she went to in Edinburgh. We call them “yahs” because that is how they say yes.

I bet she shopped at the Gap for her journey.

I understand your frustration but if it brings any comfort, this kind of mythologizing applies even to non-Western European countries. I’m Romanian-American and I still get the “Ooh, you’re from the land of Dracula” line a coupla times a year. It’s been getting better overall, I’d say.

But the stuff James Frey lied about was at least a little plausible, no?

This piece incensed me to no end. I am Nigerian-American and the patronizing, offensive tone of this piece made me a little crazy over the weekend. Where does one begin? Even if her entire story is true, giving it the benefit of the doubt, this singular Africa that underlies her entire story no longer exists, and in…

What I was really looking for when originally posting was:

You mean eisegesis, and you’re kind of a dick. Beyoncé’s art is succeeding in some cases in making people more woke, and if someone is proud for getting something, at long last, for being woken up, for seeing, why not?

(I’m feeling like I had a lot of feelings about this and I’m trying to get them organized in the right way, so this might not make a whole lot of sense. And as a white lady, I might misstep, please don’t yell at me, I’m trying.)(I’m super grey anyway, so most of y’all probably won’t even see this!)

I read it more as not sleeping well. On nights when I only get an hour or two, I count it as not having slept.

I am an anxiety-related insomniac. Last year I once didn’t sleep for 3 days and was just uncontrollably crying at work on day 4 Full on hysterics. I can’t imagine 11 days of no sleep but he’s definitely got a case for temporary insanity.

I feel like he may have been having a panic attack and it was the only thing he could do so he wouldn't freak out

Seriously. Despite the funny sound of this incident, it seems like he may have severe fear of flying - to the point of psychosis.

Same. Plus, if he hadn’t slept for 11 days (!!!), he was clearly very, very impaired.

For some reason, this makes me sad.

true story: when i was in high school i was a ball boy for the chiefs. a couple weeks into camp i felt like i was close with a couple of the guys so i casually asked johnnie morton “johnnie, where did you go to school at?” he replied in a completely serious tone “one where we don’t use prepositions at the end of our…

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are so much worse than Hillary Clinton. SO. MUCH. WORSE.

Thank all of you jezzish ladies for restoring my faith in humanity. I seriously want to smack Susan S though.

It’s easier to want things to explode when the explosion don’t affect your life - I don’t think Sarandon will be struggling to get an abortion or getting deported. She was big on Nader’s campaign too but I am guessing all the shit that happened during the Bush years was worth it?